Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the “Domain King” has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code…
Category: Domain Industry
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google’s parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a “new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a…
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April’s Fool’s day when Google temporarily put up “com.google”. This is for real and in a post Google says:…
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop On The Chinese Domain Market?
According to a story which appeared in globaltimes.cn, “the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an “unprecedented” regulation on Internet domain…
Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”
Google registry released a new tool “Domain Test” which is a “tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). ” Domain Test was “developed by…
WIPO UDRP Filings up 4.6% in 2015
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) “cybersquatting claims” by just 4.6% last year In 2015, 2,754 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) claims were filed, a 4.6% increase on…
Watch Out for DomainVerification.Net emails; Charging For ICANN Whois Verification
I got an email today which looks like one of those ICANN required verification emails that registrars have to send out to domain holders. ICANN requires registrars to send a notice to…